The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. — Alexis De Tocqueville. French diplomat, political philosopher and historian (1805–1859) Democracy
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.